Quotes About Ambition

I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing.

I think eventually I'd love to get into directing.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

I think directing is something I would really enjoy.

There is so much I'd love to do in this industry. I'm honestly interested in directing even a little more so than acting.

Directing is literally what I've always wanted to do, ever since I was a kid. So I love the career I've built behind the camera.

I think if more women had been directing when I was a child, I probably would have gone for directing first. But, as a child, all I wanted to do was make movies.

One thing I'm passionate about is directing. I've always wanted to direct.

I want to do directing and acting. I can do them at the same time - it's a challenge, but it's my dream.

I started my production house with the idea of directing one day.

After directing 'Sanam Re,' I was contemplating what to do - direct or act. I got really good opportunities of direction but I felt that if I have to act then I should do it now.

From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'

There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.

I did find my direction at an early age.

Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?

I never wanted to be a director.

A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

I don't know, you know, when I look at it now, I don't know what in the world made me think I could become a director. I really don't.

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.